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I have a sony vaio all in one with an nvidia GE FORCE GT240 graphics card. I have never been able to use compiz or cairo dock since helena 8. When I try to use compiz or dock, when I restart, I always have gotten a black screen or my desktop goes crazy and I have to reinstall the distro. I liked linux because I could tweak the OS. I have tried in mint 12 (all distros) 13 all distros now 14 and Im getting the same results. I have done this on 3 different pcs and I went and bought this pc last wk thinking that it would be fine and yet the same thing. So I left compiz alone and went 2 cairo dock. Got it working fine and as soon as I restarted the computer, I got the default screen with no panels and all of my files were gone and this was just with cairo dock. I have reinstalled mint14.1 3 times in one day trying to do this.

Should I go back to Ubuntu to be able to use cairo and compiz again? Everything worked fine in helena mint 8 but after that nothing.